Emotions and Feelings

It is better to be seventy years young than forty years old!

An attachment à la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not too French French bean!

‘God bless us every one!’ said Tiny Tim.

He holds him with his glittering eye—

When we two parted

When we two parted

Never the time and the place

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;

Little Jack Horner sat in the corner, Eating a Christmas pie. He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum, And said, “What a good boy am I!”

When she introduces me to her parents back straightened, hair finally combed, strangled by a tie, should I sit knees together on their 3rd degree sofa and not ask Where’s the bathroom?

Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.

The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.

Never the time and the place And the loved one all together!

Heap on more wood!—the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.

Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outliv’d the doctor’s pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill. The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets, So he that tastes woman, woman, woman, He that tastes woman, ruin meets.

As many farewells as be stars in heaven.

Time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch’d, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friend s

“I will take the Ring,” he said, “though I do not know the way.”

 

I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish tohave them in the neighborhood, intrudinginto my relatively safe world, in which it was, for instance, possible to read stories in peace of mind, free from fear. But the world thatcontained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever cost of peril.